Brown studied at the University of Cambridge and the École normale supérieure (Paris) and University of Bordeaux, with
Pierre Cartier, graduating in 2006 with a Ph.D. He then spent time at the
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and
Mittag-Leffler Institute. In 2007 he moved to
Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche where he won a
European Research Council starter grant in 2010. In 2012, he moved to the
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and was awarded a
CNRS Bronze Medal and
Élie Cartan Prize for his proof of two conjectures related to
multiple zeta functions. He had a Von Neumann Fellowship at the
Institute for Advanced Study from 2014 to 2015 and is currently a senior research fellow at All Souls College, at the
University of Oxford. Brown's work is on the intersection of
algebraic geometry and
number theory. He has published on Tate Motives. He also works on Zeta functions in quantum field theory. == Selected publications ==